"A department spokesperson emphasized that "more than enough" workers for trash collection and snow operations were stationed on Staten Island Wednesday night and only some "above the planned number" were sent to Brooklyn."
""We can use the people who were deployed elsewhere,""
""They're doing the same exact thing in Brooklyn that they could be doing here. And this is not to take away from - I know a lot of folks have been working 12-hour shifts and doing their best to clean the roads, but we still have work to do.""
""Staten Island has received full attention and resources during this storm and no snow personnel have been reallocated away from the published snow plan,""
Some New York City Sanitation Department employees were temporarily deployed from Staten Island to Brooklyn to assist snow operations during Winter Storm Fern. The department said those deployments were additional to planned staffing and that Staten Island retained "more than enough" workers for trash collection and snow duties, with only some "above the planned number" sent to Brooklyn. Borough President Vito Fossella criticized the reallocation as treating Staten Islanders like "second-class citizens" and pointed to bus stops, fire hydrants and crosswalks still impacted by snow. The sanitation spokesperson insisted Staten Island received full attention and that no snow personnel were reallocated away from the published snow plan.
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